Hi - apologies for the length of this, I am writing an Apache/modperl based Helpdesk system which requires user authorization before access is allowed. I would like to have either a specific username/password login or a guest login (e.g username guest, password guest). I have this working ok - I'm using AuthLDAP to authenticate the username/passwords against an LDAP server and everything works ok - when you try and access the protected URL you get a dialog box popping up requesting the username/password. What I would like to do however is to allow people to login as guest without having to enter a username/password, and I am unclear as to how to do this. Originally I was using the TicketAccess.pm etc modules from the mod_perl book, but I ran into the "cannot call register_cleanup on an undefined value" problem with CGI::Cookie. This only happened on some machines, a development RH6.1 machine was ok, as was a production RH6.0 machine, but then a different RH6.1 machine gave the problem - configured as far as tell exactly the same (and I configured all three !). Thus I stopped using TicketAccess.pm and just used AuthLDAP. I searched the archives of this list and found reports of the same problem but none of the solutions seemed to work for me. I have tried various things such as writing a PerlTransHandler which looks for request of the form /guest?page=/helpdesk&user=guest&passwd=guest and then creates an authentication header from the user/passwd info, users $r->header_in to add the header and then uses $r->uri to rewrite the uri as $page. ($r is the Apache->request object). However whilst this does redirect to /helpdesk it doesn't prevent the browser from asking for the authorization. I may be going about this all wrong - but any ideas ? Many thanks, Jeremy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (work) 01223 221402 (fax) 01223 362616 Unix Support Engineer (CCSA) - British Antarctic Survey #include <disclaimer.std>
